Round with slightly flaring sides; 3 encircling design bands in geometric shapes in golden, browns and red tones in grass stems in false embroidery on twined spruce root body. Twined spruce root.
Donor:
Ethel H. Porter
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1914
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
Made for sale.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 14.3 centimeters and diameter 20.5 centimeters